Computers aren't getting faster as quick as they used to (certainly not to Moore's Law) so the Microsoft strategy that always assumed faster hardware, is a flop

Computers aren't getting faster as quick as they used to (certainly not to Moore's Law) so the Microsoft strategy that always assumed faster hardware, is a flop. Which means a properly optimised OS can sell more, ultimately (eg, no endless layers of graphical libraries just to draw a textbox in a GUI).